What's new in TeX, part 2

Posted Oct 29, 2015 9:54 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
Parent article: What's new in TeX, part 2

> Tex4ht has, indeed, made realistic singe-source authoring workflows [PDF] based on LaTeX markup
> a reasonable approach—if the author is willing to prepare source files with multiple output
> targets in mind.

You nearly had me. But then comes this:

> There are some limitations, though, including the inability to use OpenType fonts.

I do understand that OpenType probably can't be used on the Web, but does this mean I can't use OpenType fonts in the document at all? Of course, all my documents use OpenType fonts. Ligatures, you know..

What's new in TeX, part 2

Posted Oct 29, 2015 12:27 UTC (Thu) by leephillips (guest, #100450) [Link]

Eitan Gurari, the creator of tex4ht, died unexpectedly in June 2009, and nobody has come forward to advance this rather amazing piece of software past the DVI age. So, no fontspec nor OpenType in the document at all.

What's new in TeX, part 2

Posted Oct 29, 2015 23:28 UTC (Thu) by michal_h21 (guest, #105104) [Link]

It is actually possible to use tex4ht with Open Type fonts, both used in the TeX document and in the generated HTML file. It isn't supported by default, due to a bug in tex4ht DVI processor, but some tips are given in [1]. In the HTML, you can either include local fonts [2], or use some service such as Google Fonts [3]

[1] http://michal-h21.github.io/samples/helpers4ht/fontspec.html
[2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/166061/2891
[3] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/247479/2891